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An anonymous reader writes "Most people use MS filesystems on Disk-On-Keys, and portable hard drives, as these are readable from most machines. But this way you lose the files' permission information, which many times is very inconvenient (you must agree that having Ubuntu asking you whether to execute or display every text file or image you open from a DOK is annoying). Using 'regular' Linux filesystems like ext keeps the permissions, but may require using the superuser when switching machines (as the UIDs are different). So do any of you have a creative solution for this problem?"

Does this have the same issue Linux' ntfs-3g has?
-not to be able to mount a partition that hasn't been cleanly dismounted, except by forcing it
-extremely slow performance with large files or fragmented filesystems
-slow performance generally
If so, I wouldn't say OSX has NTFS support. Neither does Linux. Just some experimental hack that works "well enough".

This is outrageous! I thought these were all original features of NTFS!

>mrcaseyj wrote:>>>>> C3ntaur wrote:>>> I invite anyone who claims CO2 is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.>>>> I invite anyone who claims pure water is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.>> I invite anyone who claims pure oxygen is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes

I invite anyone who claims pure vacuum is not a pollutant to sit in a room full of it for 10 minutes.

You are all wrong: in all these fatal scenarios, the common element is the room. Those do-gooders in Copenhagen should be negotiating an agreement on room reduction.

So there is no straightforward way to keep track of file creation times under POSIX systems? (nevermind translating between the conventions, if some obscure one is possible for POSIX, under dualboot scenario) That's a very dissapointing to me, since I find absolute file creation dates very usefull when navigating the filesystem...

Unfortunately, there are a lot of minor variations on the format... Differing types of disklabels (partition tables), big/little-endian byte-swapping, et al. I find sticking to BSD-created UFS/FFS file systems works best.

Still, it's an incredibly solid filesystem, widely compatible, available, and just generally has everything you could want.